LAS VEGAS – For the past several weeks, Michael Chiesa has split his training camp for UFC 223 between Syndicate MMA and the UFC Performance Institute, and it’s been great. No, really, it has. It’s just that Las Vegas resident Kevin Lee also uses the UFC PI on a regular basis. And so, as Chiesa (14-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC) has prepared to meet ex-champion Anthony Pettis (20-7 MMA, 7-6 UFC) at the April 7 pay-per-view event, he’s had to cross paths with the man who choked him out and who invoked his mother during the heated build-up to his last fight. What can you do? “I don’t like the guy, but I respect him as a competitor,” Chiesa said today during a media session to promote UFC 223
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